Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away from it the same night. In "The Fight" two respectable, middle-aged cousins who have never liked each other finally have the fistfight they should have got out of their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never had been very nice. He hoped the punches he had got in on Alfred's body would make him so sore that in the morning on the train he would be unable to get out of his berth...
...While House," Katherine Hepburn in "Christopher Strong," and "42nd Street" are still in the immediate vicinity. "Cavalcade" and "42nd Street" illustrate the increasingly effective use of musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World." The whistling epidemic that has swept Harvard since "42nd Street" was the child not of single renditions...
probably indicates that the Club had been founded several years previously. More records are found for the year 1842 but after that date all is silent until...
...Hull wrote his own Washington orders-the party platform planks on tariff and foreign affairs. The President remains the final executor of these orders and his Secretary of State, a lawyer by trade and training, functions as an obedient attorney of the Stimson type. But planted deep within the silent Hull ego is an attachment to the principles at stake that is older and deeper than President Roosevelt's, and a tenacity which may outlast that of the White House should the latter weaken...
...Bean Dall buy a seat on the Board of Trade a week ago? He must expect it." Mr. Ball's father-in-law in the White House (where Mr. Dall visited over the weekend) took pains to foster the inflation psychology pointed out to the closed but not silent corporation of White House newshawks four points, all "anti-deflationary": 1) release of $4,000,000,000 in deposits still tied up in closed banks, 2) guarantee of Federal reserve deposits with a $2.000,000,000 fund, 3) higher crop prices and cutting of farm mortgage interest to make...